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wine + wifi digital tasting

thermae intersection and sequence

folding material studies

connectivity crenshaw urban housing

hybridity boyle heights civic center

independent research thesis los angeles: linear city

f ield studies i ta ly study abroad

workplace of the future gensler internship work samples

palettes gensler internship work samples

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WINE + WIFI digital tasting @ villa olmo



wine + wifi

wine + wi-fdigital tasting@ villa olmowine bar + tasting as a historically signicant part of italian culture;

and internet cafe + hotspots as an integral part of modern society.

what

how

where

why

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* historically significant part of italian culture

* involves the senses of taste, touch, and smell

wine

wi-fi

* integral part of a contemporary, global society

* involves visual and aural senses

An architectural [REFRESH] project based in Como, Italy,this was a conceptual investigation that aimed tocreate a social gathering hub in a historic but under-used villa. As wine is such a large part of Italian cultureand is invested in the cultivation of physical interaction,

the inclusion of this culturally rooted tradition within thenew digital realm allows locals and tourists to experiencesocial interaction in a new, revitalized way. By integrat-

ing these two elements (wine and wi), this “refresh” ofsocialization experiments with varying degrees ofphysical interaction mixed with the dynamic of digitalsocial gathering.

Applied to the interior of Villa Olmo (a local landmark inthe city of Como), this concept can be thought of as aphysical manifestation of the ‘iPhone.’ Different rooms

become nodes for different internet activities, such asblogging, gaming, online shopping, and emailing. The

separation of these functions encourages people tophysically engage with the villa by moving between the

spaces and thus engage in a “digital tasting” of spaceand experience.

User-induced manipulation of wall surfaces also create a

physical connection between rooms, allowing for differentcircumstances to occur based on the varying activitiesoccurring in each room. These shared thresholds start todene larger “neighborhoods” which blur the distinction

between independent digital activities, and allows usersof different rooms to engage with each other visually, audi-bly, and physically. Ultimately, this project reintegrates thephysical and social aspect of human interaction into the

impersonal digital realm, dening a new means ofinteraction.



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digital communication -

problem

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physical communication-

solution

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facebook youtube world of warcraft

diggbloggerskype

social networking entertainment gaming

researchpublishingcommunication

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hardware software user

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wine + wifi

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red wines

white wines

sparkling wines

types of

wine

dessert wines

social networking

entertainment

publishing

researching

types of

web use



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wine + wifi

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wine + wifi

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wine + wifi -

order drinks from

the table screen

see what others

ordering

order drinks from

bar counter

update your

facebook status

order drinks from

your pod

check email

and fb from pods

skype with others

from counter

chat or play

with other pods

change music/

lighting from table





INTERSECTION + SEQUENCE Water and Atmosphere: Thermae





thermae

PRIVATE PUBLIC

LIGHT DARK

INNER OUTER

OPEN ENCLOSED

INTERSECTION

site analysis + courtyard typology investigation



thermae

study models







thermae

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s a u

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bath 2

bath 3

massage

t h e r a

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rst floor

main indoor [30]

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office

storagetech

a h

reception

below ground



thermae

outdoor [22] [35]

i n d o o r

[ 2 2 ]

sauna

h a y

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third floorsecond floor



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thermae

south elevation



thermae

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section B

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thermae

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thermae

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thermae

north elevation

thermae



thermae

west elevation

thermae



thermae



MATERIAL + PROCESS concrete// masonry// metal

material + process



material + process folding // concrete

This project is an study offolding iterations, geometriccasting experimentation, and

solid void relationships that

are created by intersectingfolding ribbons.

The use of folding techniquesallows for a controlledprocess through which the“ribbon” can be manipulated

in both direction and form.

material + process



material + process folding // masonryThe creation of an iterative patterningsystem interacts with the landscape byvaried porosities. Studies of the moduleas an aggregated system allows for the

structure to reflect a textile-like quality,as different portions of patterning can bepieced together as a whole

material + processf ldi l



material process folding // metalThis folded metal skin system combines thefolding techniques of the previous two: investi-gating the geometric folding of the masonry tilepatterning, and how these geometric folds can

provide for direction changes first explored inthe concrete project. This iterative process andresultant system was ultimately one testing thetrue material capabilities of metal as a structuralelement.

URBAN CONNECTIVITY



URBAN CONNECTIVITY los angeles urban housing

connectivity



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This project was an exploration in creatingurban connectivity in housing through theuse of an interactive shifting grid. The plane

of the ground floor is shifted topographicallyin accordance with the needs of the auxil-

iary program. The entire housing complex isconnected as one surface, and at the same

time segmented into different communitiesthrough the shifts on the grid. An explorationof a wood paneling system creates differentground layers and varies in densities to

delineate green space and walkways. Thisalso serves as a sustainable means ofrainwater capture and thermal mass.

BOYLE HEIGHTS CIVIC CENTER



BOYLE HEIGHTS CIVIC CENTER hybrid collaborative learning center

hybridity



Located east of Los Angeles, Boyle Heights is one of the city’s old-est neighborhoods. With a large immigrant and Latino population,the site is extremely culturally and historically diverse. The hybrid

Collaborative Learning Center program of this Community Centerlinks its programs to the existing library and expansions upon

existing community programs.

The striated banding of programmatic and circulation elements notonly creates a language of weaving between the Library and CivicCenter, but also explore dynamic sectional relationships between

programs. Through the exploration of programmatic banding, shift-ing sectional relationships, and a striated shear wall system, thisproject ultimately aimed to weave civic presence with the culturallyevolving community.

Arts/ MultimediaStudio

Collaborative LearningLab/ Classroom

Intimate Performing Arts/Amphitheater Space

HYBRIDCollaborative Learning Center

ADULT programs Computer classes Adult Literacy Program (ALP) Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Families for Literacy (FFL)

TEEN programs Online Resource Education Teen manga/ anime Teen web

Librarian Office SpaceRestroomsBook StorageDonation CenterSmall Exhibition

CHILDRENS programs Storytime

LIBRARY

Los Angeles Public Library

(Benjamin Franklin Branch)

COMMUNITY CIVIC CENTER

OFFICES Council Members Community Leaders Civic Employees

Administrative SOCIAL HALL

COUNCIL CHAMBER

LOBBY

RestroomsStorage

Utility Space

CLASSROOMS

EXTERIOR SPACE



hybridity



ocial halllobby

collaborativeclassrooms

seminar/lecturehall lri

library/resourcerublic sittingsteps /up to councili i t

outdoor roofdeck

upto council i

hybridity



HVAC SYSTEM

Shear Wall + Paneling

undulating roof planes

U N C I L C H A M B E R

C O

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A L H A

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N A R

Y B R I D P E R O R M

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C L A S R O O M S

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PROGRAM + CIRCULATION



workplace of the future



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a workplace project + integrated research/ design model

By mapping our patterns and activities in the work place, and analyzing how

our clients truly ultilized the spaces they worked in, the project team worked

to dene new work space typologies which would better represent thedynamic interplay of private, public, impromptu and semi-public activities intoday’s work environment.










palettes

t i l t l i ti ti



a material + conceptual space investigation A study of strong material palattes in color andtexture which are interpreted formally as a dynamicspatial experience

: sculptural ribbons // geometric facets

palettes



: warm modern // linear

independent research

LINEAR CITY



Inspired by Reyner Banham’s “4 Ecologies of Los Angeles,” I

was interested in investigating LA’s unconventional and perhapslack of urban spatial form in the commonly accepted sense of“outward sprawl from a central nucleus.” As many haveassumed that downtown LA will never qualify as the heart of thecity, partly because Wilshire Boulevard already exists as a“linear downtown,” the geometries, nodes, solids, voids, andtemporal dimensions of the city are all variables that ultimatelymake up the dynamic network of relationships that evolve anddene it. Though Los Angeles is largely dened by majorgeographical or historical landmarks that correspond to themany nuclei it has generated over time, the evolution of the LAfreeway system has also redened transportation from aninterstitiary element to a solid formal foundation of Los Angelesurban language. In my research I hope to diagram, map, andperhaps challenge the “unconventional” formal nature of LA byoverlaying comparisons with other urban cities around the world.Can we break down the urban fabric of Los Angeles in thecontext of Wilshire Boulevard, to inform and extrapolate uponthe relationships of the built environment and its interactivity withthe temporal dimension of space and time?

LINEAR CITY: a morphology

Independent research project // summer 2010

image source: The Infrastructural City




URBAN FABRICComparisons of urban fabrics around the world expose the inherent problem

of scale as perhaps one of the most signicant factors in determining

whether a city is characteristically suburban and auto-oriented or more

pedestrian-oriented. The traditional response in suburbia has been to

internalize pedestrian areas, in the form of the mall. “Square One (home to

the largest Walmart in the world)” as illustrated in the gure/ground of

Mississagua, is a classic example of the surburban pedestrian public space

(http://www.bricoleurbanism.org).

Copenhagen, on the other hand, is perhaps what many would consider the

ultimate pedestrian city. Though the two cities could arguably have the

same total “area” of pedestrian public space, it is ultimately the degree of

integration into the urban fabric that denes the temporal character of the

city. Various cities around the world all have different forms of the “urban

grid,” and thus there is no perfect form of street fabric. However, as Los

Angeles emerges from a quilt work of distinctive neighborhood fabrics

stitched together by the Wilshire corridor, the morphological characteristics

of each can perhaps begin to expose the possibilities of a more

interconnected city fabric.

image source: http://www.bricoleurbanism.org








SANTA MONICA

DOWNTOWN

WESTWOOD

HOLLYWOOD








2.9 miles/ 15, 325 ft 2.71 miles/ 14, 306 ft 2.58 miles/ 13,622 ft 2.64 miles/ 13,982 ft






As fundamental as the element of the city block, are the constructsthat form upon the delineation of these grids. While the shiny

towers of the “centralized” city nucei are indeed present along the

stretches of Wilshire Boulevard, what then lies in the interstitiary

spaces within the urban fabric? Not quite city, yet not exactly

surburban, “Grey Goo,” is the massive territory between city

centers and the “exburbs.” Endless and without clear structure, this

“goo” is quite literally the grey concrete and asphalt that has

seeped into the infrastructure of transportation throughways and

city blocks.

As Wilshire transcends the shifting geometry of block proportion anddistance, it also illustrates the graphic proliferation of “grey goo” in the

“in-betweens” of dened neighborhood fabrics. With the quaint

proportions of LA’s Westwood Village morphing into the corporate

scale of Century City, the signicant increase in buildable floor-area-

ratio perhaps gives an indication of Grey Goo as “ the actual material

apparatus necessary to sustain the shiny façade of the city center.”







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Drivable sub-urban is:Very low densityFloor-Area-Ratio of between 0.05 and 0.30

Walkable urban is:At least ve times as dense as drivable sub-urbanFloor-Area-Ratio of between 0.8 and upwards to 40.0




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METRIC: Floor-Area-Ratio


SANTA MONICA



GREY GOOThe material apparatus of this “grey” support system is

monotonous- asphalt, prefab homes, back ofces, and old

strip malls. As city blocks along Wilshire morph and fluctuate,

it is the interstitiary spaces that suffer from the inevitable need

of automobile and other support infrastructure. Scale becomes

forgotten and as the walkable city block transforms to meet a

more “metropolitan” fabric, the residual blocks in-between are

left at the cost of their urban efciency and pedestrian viability.

deurbanization of the mid 20th century, a formal and spatial

deterioration of the city into the boundaries of suburbia, the

linear organization of Wilshire Boulevard creates a

contrastingly cyclic phenomenon, one not necessarily

deteriorating but rather fluctuating in the ambiguity of fabric

shifts. As distinct neighborhoods weave together, the lost

identity of those spaces caught in-between are reflected in the

urban architecture of the “goo.”

190,230 sf

617 ft

338 ft

GREY GOO

if 0.2 miles ~ 3 min walk

2.5 min

1 min



ITALIA



USC school of architecture // study abroad 2011

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